Occupational exposure to formaldehyde and wood dust and nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 376-384

  Vaughan, Thomas L ^a,b   Stewart, Patricia A ^c   Teschke, Kay ^d   Lynch, Charles F ^e   Swanson, G Marie ^f   Lyon, Joseph L ^g   Berwick, Marianne ^h  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^f MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Formaldehyde; Occupational exposure; Wood dust

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RISK FACTOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TELEPHONE; UNITED STATES; WOOD DUST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DUST; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; WOOD;

EID: 0033627480     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.57.6.376     Document Type: Article

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